I have always used beeswax on zippers - but suspect that on the playa it would actually make things worse. The slight adhesiveness of the wax would actually attract and bind the dust.

Savannah: I don't know what it is, but no thread here escapes alive. You'll get 1 or 2 real answers at minimum, occasionally 10 or 12, and then we flog it until it's unrecognizable and you can't get your deposit back.

Drawingablank wrote:I have always used beeswax on zippers - but suspect that on the playa it would actually make things worse. The slight adhesiveness of the wax would actually attract and bind the dust.

True. Graphite is probably better.

"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.Do things that have never been done."--Russell Kirsch

If you're like me;Your cuticles will get tore the fuck up, you'll be riddled with hangnails that snag on everything. Your once beautiful healthy nails will be dry and brittle.

Not only is it important to cut hangnails off at the root before they can snag and bleed and open you up to the possibility to infection, but having fingernails that feel like broken glass just aren't comfortable.

Carry at all times a plate, bowl, mug, chopsticks, utensils, wipes for cleaning them (after a good licking - don't be proud) and a zip loc for dirty ones. Make friends with your feeding opportunities.

On Token's theme - bring a bunch of plastic 375ml flasks of spirits. Gift them to the chefs in your fav on playa eateries, especially ones you would like to be regular spots. You know the ones. Also throw into your kit some exotic sauces to gift to on playa chefs.

Get a large mesh onion bag from the grocery. Hang it up and dry any moist waste before trash bagging. Theoretically should work with rock baby diapers (on a flagpole?), but I'm not trying diaps.

That carabiner that your camera case has in addition to the belt loop? Clip it to the belt loop too. Why? Because, like what happened to me, the case can slip off your belt when you're visiting the porta-potty to empty your bowels. It was only luck that it landed on the floor rather than in the pot.

"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law." -- Christopher Hitchens

I you are using a Mountain Dew or Diet Mountain Dew bottle as a piss jug, do something to distinguish it from a bottle you haven't finished drinking. Although, if you are grabbing a 'Dew to wake up in the morning, urine might work just as well.

"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.Do things that have never been done."--Russell Kirsch

Heal any cuts you have now, and if you even just get a scrape on your knee on the playa, fix it up with a wash, band aid and cream right away. What is it about that Playa? Its so sanitizing, yet it really stings and infects any cuts or snags! It is very irritating.

Another tip: While playa is interestingly sanitizing, that is no excuse to not wear deoderant, hippie.

RedHeaven wrote:What is it about that Playa? Its so sanitizing, yet it really stings and infects any cuts or snags! It is very irritating.

It's not "infecting"- it's desiccating. It sucks the moisture out, and then keeps at it (which is why playa foot can be so bad). Bring vaseline with- if you get a cut, flush it with water, put on vaseline & band-aid it. The vaseline will keep it from drying out & cracking.

It's a camping trip in the desert, not the redemption of the fallen world - Cryptofishist

RedHeaven wrote:What is it about that Playa? Its so sanitizing, yet it really stings and infects any cuts or snags! It is very irritating.

It's not "infecting"- it's desiccating. It sucks the moisture out, and then keeps at it (which is why playa foot can be so bad). Bring vaseline with- if you get a cut, flush it with water, put on vaseline & band-aid it. The vaseline will keep it from drying out & cracking.